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New comment by bbqbbqbbq in "Toyota-owned automaker tampered with safety tests for 30 years"

bbqbbqbbq — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 23:36:30 +0000

Per accident, normalized over velocity and angle of impact is ideal I'd assume in order to not bias on the kind of driving done in vehicles of a given brand.

New comment by bbqbbqbbq in "In 2024, please switch to Firefox"

bbqbbqbbq — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 16:37:42 +0000

I know it's Chromium-Based but I've been a very happy Arc Browser user all year

New comment by bbqbbqbbq in "LED Industrial Piercing"

bbqbbqbbq — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 03:17:12 +0000

I don't understand how people learn to do this sort of machining, PCB design, etc from nothing, with no machines or tools or anything. Any pointers?

New comment by bbqbbqbbq in "The copy and swap idiom in C++"

bbqbbqbbq — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 23:50:24 +0000

> I don't know how ABSEIL fares around exception safety when exceptions are enabled so YMMV there if you're doing things in an exception context

OMG this is my time to shine. I wrote the library for testing Abseil containers for exception-safety. I don't work there anymore but I know they've implemented exception safety tests for a bunch of containers in there, and I remember when I was writing the library we even found a bug in GNU `std::optional`.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPzHNSUnTc4 is the talk I gave at cppCon about this.

As a side story, that talk was the first one in the morning and I showed up just before it started on account of my Uber driver missing the highway exit. I had planned to grab some food at the conference but didn't have time so that whole talk I was overstimulated on coffee on an empty stomach trying to keep my composure early in the morning.

New comment by bbqbbqbbq in "Why aren't smart people happier?"

bbqbbqbbq — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 12:18:03 +0000

How would the world collapse? This sounds like mixing up "the world" with "human society". I know I do more when I'm happy because things are enjoyable. No disrespect to Don Knuth and it's obviously good to realize you're not gonna be happy all the time but that line of reasoning is just not true.

New comment by bbqbbqbbq in "A quick and practical “MSI” hash table"

bbqbbqbbq — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 12:47:15 +0000

C++'s `std::unordered_[map|set]` has a requirement that the addresses of objects in the map don't change on a reallocation -- this forces it to use buckets with linked lists under the hood. Try absl::flat_hash_set (https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp/blob/master/absl/contai...) and see how it goes.

New comment by bbqbbqbbq in "A visual proof that neural nets can compute any function"

bbqbbqbbq — Sun, 06 Mar 2022 14:48:45 +0000

This is why we work with our tools though, no? A NN can decide where the ambiguities lie in the data set and communicate that to the data scientists who are working with it, who can then provide data to help disambiguate the data.

New comment by bbqbbqbbq in "Tor Snowflake Proxy"

bbqbbqbbq — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 12:59:52 +0000

Outline (getoutline.org) is a super easy to use you run on a cloud server. No logging and it works everywhere there's censorship, and it's easy to share access to your server with as many or as few people as you like. The only cost is the cost of running the cloud server, a few dollars a month if you use LightSail or DigitalOcean. Disclaimer: I used to work on it.